242 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
science ; 225 on forest formation and tree culture; 87 on forest 
protection; 167 on forest utilisation; 289 on forest valuation; 244 
on forest administration; 66 on forest engineering; 291 on 
mathematics ; 47 on natural science in general; 128 on physics; 
27 on mechanics ; 19 on astronomy; 148 on meteorology ; 182 on 
chemistry ; 395 on geology; 376 on political economy; 251 on 
agriculture, gardening, etc. ; 380 on botany ; 293 on zoology; 456 
on law; 353 on geography; 194 on the chase; 198 copies of 
reports, periodicals, etc.; and 156 miscellaneous works. It is 
open on two days in the week for the taking out and return of 
books, the numbers of those required having to be written on a 
piece of paper, and dropped into a box provided for the purpose. 
The forest garden, as it is called, is about half a mile from the 
academy, and is in reality part of the Eberswalde forest. It 
contains about 15 acres, the greater part of which is under fir and 
beech forest, the introduced species being planted in clumps here 
and there, with rustic fencing round them for protection, At 
the back of the ‘seed-kiln is a large nursery for raising the plants 
required, and the shooting ranges for the use of the students are 
also here. This nursery is partly taken up by clumps of various 
conifer, which are never mixed with each other, but always kept 
in separate clumps, so that their behaviour under ordinary forest 
conditions may be observed. A smaller nursery for raising the 
ordinary forest trees also exists a few yards from this one, and 
which contains high spruce hedges along both sides of the walks. 
The botanical garden, which is placed on the margin of the 
forest garden, and forms part of the latter, is about three acres in 
extent, and is bounded on the lower side by the small stream which 
flows through Eberswalde. In outline it is somewhat oval, while 
the surface in the centre is high and undulating, and on the right 
and left sides low and flat, so that it presents a great variety of 
surface for treatment. About the centre stands a handsome 
granite column, surmounted by a white marble cross, erected in 
1873 to the memory of those forest officers and former students of 
the academy who fell or died of wounds in the wars of 1864-66 
and 1870-71, twenty-one names in all being inscribed upon it. 
At the lower side of the garden a clump of beech and Scots fir 
provide suitable accommodation for a rustic summer-house, while 
on the ground beneath the trees are planted numerous shade-loving 
and herbaceous plants natives of the forest. The undulating 
portion in the centre is laid out in irregularly-shaped beds, which 
